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Breathlessness - Management
Basis for recommendation
Clinical features of anaemia
- These are based on expert observation reported in the Oxford textbook of medicine [Weatherall, 2010].
Clinical features of the causes of abdominal splinting
- These are based on expert observation reported in Macleod's clinical examination [Ford et al, 2009].
Clinical features of psychogenic breathlessness
- These are based on observational data from a Chinese study of 111 people with psychogenic breathlessness [Han et al, 2004].
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